Results tagged “blinddate”

UPDATE, 12:10 P.M.: We forgot to remind you that Sia is playing this afternoon in Santa Monica for free. 2:00 p.m., Starbucks, random (see first bullet in Extra, Extra list).

Back in 2004, two Harvard graduates decided to make a dating website with the vision that dating should be free. Since then, OkCupid.com has gained 525,000 active users (meaning active within the last 8 weeks), climbing their way up to the top of the online dating empire, possibly freaking out Match.com, which has an estimated 1.3 million users. In Los Angeles alone, OkCupid has 54,000 registers users (including Tom from MySpace... maybe that's him, maybe not) with about 10,000 to 15,000 who are active within a 50-mile radius of downtown.

If you want to do something else tonight besides the mind-numbing seventh season opener of American Idol, here are a few options:

What does a man like this do for an encore? Why get into reality television, of course. Following the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" school of philosophy, Kelly has joined forces with the creators of such sterling entertainment as "The Surreal Life" and "Blind Date" to produce a reality show called "The Law Firm".

This coming from the man who has made a career off of making 1,000 episodes worth of blind dates everyone's business. LAist wonders if Kobe perhaps learned his moves from the Blind Date: Uncensored DVD, except the date didn't quite end as planned.